Invisible Warriors: The Migrant Yunnanese Women in Northern Thailand

Abstract

This paper aims to look into the power relations embedded in gendered roles and to bring out the insights into the subjectivity of the Yunnanese migrant women in northern Thailand with reference to both Han Chinese culture and Yunnanese local tradition. Three life stories are given to depict concretely how these women lived in different predicaments in the past, and managed to cope with them by adhering to traditional Chinese norms and values on the one hand, and re-interpreting them with their inner strength and creativity in their everyday life on the other.